I also had the problem that my brain kept confusing coastlines with borders often. I thought of Ukraine because of its long border, then realised its coastline is much smaller. This happened with other countries like India and Brazil.
based on some previous silly complaints this quiz should have been impossible for me to take as I grew up learning miles. But in reality I didn't actually notice as it is completely irrelevant.
If it's irrelevant why do you care? I can do pretty well in both the metric system and the imperial system, but the literal entire world outside Myanmar and the USA uses the metric system.
nah bro now liberia and myanmar are changing to metric and traditional measuring units, ig the us can't really cos there's so much more people that grew up using imperial. they'll forever be behind smh
Seems reasonable. NZ is bigger than you might expect, certainly bigger than the UK. China and Brazil have coastlines on the east only (whereas NZ counts all the way around). Mexico is actually listed as more than NZ (15,600 vs. 10,300).
Mexico has a lot of coast. Consider the Baja Peninsula. The coast of UK is very irregular. The numbers are accurate based on the map that I used. The source is posted.
Why is Egypt in the top 5 for Africa when in the top 10 African countries with the most coastline it doesn't appear anywhere? I find this very confusing.
This quiz uses data from the World Factbook, but that one uses info from JetPunk's formula to calculate coastlines. There's no real standard because of the coastline paradox.
Just out of curiosity, how long is the coastline of the Indonesian part of New Guinea? By looking at the map, it seems way larger than Vanuatu, but that of course can be deceptive, since Vanuatu is a lot of small islands. If it is more, then Indonesia should be listed in both continents, similar to Russia.
Wait, so Venezuela's coastline is equal to the entire circumference of Madagascar?! That has to be the most unbelievable fact I have heard in a while....
In Venezuela check out 'Lago de Maracaibo' and 'Punto Fijo' in the west, plus there's the Orinoco delta in the east... It does seem unbelievable though I agree.
By the way, I forgot the Philippines *facepalm*